Ancestral and Native

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Ancestral adjective - Of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor.

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Native and ancestral are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Native" instead an adjective "Ancestral".

Nearby Words: ancestry, ancestor, ancestrally

Native adjective - Belonging to a particular place by birth or origin.

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Ancestral and native are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancestral" instead an adjective "Native".

Nearby Words: nativity, natively

Pali in turn may be ancestral to Sinhala, the most common native tongue in Sri Lanka.

Source: Sacred Language
Also applies to humans, who seem to have all of their ancestral languages (for example, Susan Ivanova's native language is Russian; she has an American accent from her education in American schools) but use English as a common tongue among themselves.

Source: Common Tongue
Wall of Weapons: Intschu-tschuna has a large collection of Native (possibly ancestral) weapons on the walls of his room in the pueblo that gains Old Shatterhand's admiration.

Source: Literature / Winnetou

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